Roger Sessions on Music : : Collected Essays / / Roger Sessions; ed. by Edward T. Cone.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Sessions, Roger,
• HerausgeberIn: Cone, Edward T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1608
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (402 p.)

Over the past fifty years Roger Sessions has developed, in articles, lectures, and addresses, various themes that reflect the stages of his own musical and intellectual growth. These themes form the basis of the present collection of essays. Many of the essays deal with specific problems that musicians, especially composers, have faced during the past five decades: problems related to new musical styles and techniques, to the position of composers in society, to their responsibilities as teachers, to their role during the period of the world wars, to the mutual reactions of composer and audience, and to the basic questions of musical form and expression. The collection also includes a set of critical essays on such seminal figures as Bloch, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky. Roger Sessions is the composer of a recently recorded cantata on Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" as well as numerous other works. He is the author of The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, and Listener (Princeton).Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Preface -- I. The Composer's Craft -- The Composer and His Message [1939] -- Music in Crisis [1933] -- The New Musical Horizon [1937] -- Song and Pattern in Music Today [1956] -- Problems and Issues Facing the Composer Today [1960] -- Style and "Styles" in Music [1961] -- II. The Composer and His Audience -- Art, Freedom, and the Individual [957] -- Composer and Critic [1934] -- America Moves to the Avant-Scene [1937] -- To Revitalize Opera [1938] -- The Scope of Music Criticism [1947] -- Music in a Business Economy [1948] -- How a "Difficult" Composer Gets That Way [1950] -- III. Education and Training -- Music and the Crisis of the Arts [1954] -- New Vistas in Musical Education [1934] -- The Composer in the University [1949] -- What Can Be Taught? [1967] -- IV. The Limits of Theory -- Heinrich Schenker's Contribution [1935] -- Hindemith on Theory [1937] -- Exposition by Krenek [1938] -- Escape by Theory [1938] -- The Function of Theory [1938] -- V. Music and the World Confiict -- Music and Nationalism [1933] -- Vienna-Vale, Ave [1938] -- On the American Future [1940] -- American Music and the Crisis [1940] -- No More Business-as-Usual [1942] -- Artists and This War [1942] -- Europe Comes to America [1945] -- VI. Five Composers -- Ernest Bloch [1927] -- On Oedipus Rex [1928] -- Hindemith's Mathis der Maler [1934] -- Schoenberg in the United States [1944, revised 1972] -- Some Notes on Schoenberg and the "Method of Composing with Twelve Tones" [1952] -- Thoughts on Stravinsky [1957] -- In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky [1971] -- In Memoriam Luigi Dallapiccola [1975]